How to Cook Appetizing Asian Stir-fried Vegetable (Capcay)

Asian Stir-fried Vegetable (Capcay). Add sliced chicken, saute until it's cooked through. In Chinese cuisine , vegetables are mostly stir fried or blanched. In Indonesia, you almost can find "CAP CAY" - an Indonesian Chinese style stir fry vegetable, as a common cuisine in everywhere.

As with most stir-fries I add and delete ingredients depending upon what I have on hand. This is a good basic veggie stir-fry from Cooking Light. Prep all of the ingredients before you start cooking because the cooking phase is quick. You can cook Asian Stir-fried Vegetable (Capcay) using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Asian Stir-fried Vegetable (Capcay)

1. It's 2 of medium size carrots, sliced.
2. You need 1 head of cauliflower, cut.
3. Prepare 1 head of brocoli, cut.
4. Prepare 2 stalks of spring onion, sliced.
5. It's 1 of fillet of chicken breast, sliced/diced.
6. It's 100 gr of baby corn, sliced.
7. You need 1 of red pepper, sliced.
8. Prepare 3 of garlic cloves, crushed.
9. Prepare 2 tablespoons of olive oil.
10. It's 2 tablespoons of corn flour.
11. Prepare pinch of salt & pepper.

Cap cai, sometimes spelled cap cay, is the Hokkien-derived term for a popular Chinese Indonesian stir-fried vegetable dish that originates from Fujian cuisine. Various vegetables such as cauliflower, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, Napa cabbage, carrot, baby corn. I'm an Indonesian currently living abroad. This Asian Vegetable Stir Fry recipe is packed with vegetables like broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, bell pepper and cabbage.

Asian Stir-fried Vegetable (Capcay) step by step

1. In a large pan, saute the crushed garlic and sliced red pepper with 2 tbsp olive oil..
2. Add sliced chicken, saute until it's cooked through. Add cauliflower and the brocolli and a little bit of water. Cover the pan with a lid and let it cook for 2 to 3 minutes (depending how you like it)..
3. Add carrots and baby corn. Stir well. And cook again for another 2 minutes or so. Until everything is almost cooked but still have the crunch..
4. Mix corn flour with a little bit of water. And the pour it into the pan, stir well until it thickens..
5. Add spring onion, salt and pepper to taste..
6. Serve with rice or if you’re on diet, you can just eat it like that..

The veggies are stir fried with a simple Asian-style sauce. The veggies are stir fried with a simple Asian-style sauce. But Cap Cay also literally means mix vegetables. Another source says Cap Cay is Indonesian version from Chinese Chop Suey which is famous by Chinese Restaurant in USA. Another funny story : Cap Cay is actually a local mispronunciation (by Indonesian) of the chinese words for cook or cooking, tzuo tsai.

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